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Martha Stewart at Good Housekeeping's 125th anniversary "Shine On" benefit for the National Women's History Museum - Mmm. I love La Grenouille. I love everything of Jean Georges. I love everything of Daniel. And I love Benoit, right around the corner, yeah. Every one of them has its specialty, of course. If you go to Benoit, you can have the oysters—they're delicious. The souflees are like the best. And at Grenouille—the frog's legs.

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At the Leaves of Grass premiere: 1. Ed Norton: "Blue Hill -- anything at Blue Hill. I like this little joint in the East Village called Joe Doe." 2. Steve Earle: "Babbo is every bit as good as it’s cracked up to be. And A.O.C. is a favorite of ours, which is a French restaurant on Bleecker Street. The duck confit at A.O.C. is the best in the city."

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Lanvin (Upper East Side) - At long last, French couture icon plants a flagship in NYC. ● Gansevoort Park (Murray Hill) - The Gansevoort injects a little Meatpacking into Park Avenue. ● Hurricane Club (Flatiron) - Quality Meats peeps channel Trader Vic's. AvroKO dons a grass skirt.

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Michael Stillman, president of Fourth Wall Restaurants (Park Avenue Winter, Quality Meats, Maloney & Porcelli, Post House, and Smith & Wollensky) calls mid-town steakhouse Quality Meats his “baby” while giving us a tour of the space, speaking of each architectural element with grand hand gestures and obvious satisfaction with the finished product. Stillman is the son of famed restaurateur Alan Stillman of T.G.I. Friday's and Smith & Wollensky fame, and plans to expand his empire, much like his father in the next calendar year. His newest venture being the Flatiron Tiki-Polynesian outpost, The Hurricane Club. More details after the jump.

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Jumpsuits have dotted countless designer collections since graduating from garages to glossies more than two decades ago. Recent versions have evoked the printed one-pieces of Mick Jagger and Freddie Mercury, while hearkening back to the velvet ropes of Studio 54 and even hitting upon haute meat-locker garb. The ubiquity of today’s jumpsuit has made it more of a seasonal staple than a runway one-off, with every major house -- from H&M to Chanel and YSL -- touting their own signature versions, finally giving the onesie its much-deserved 15 minutes. See full gallery.

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As far as restaurant eats go, Scranton PA must be the pits. I've never been, but come on. So it's a good thing that only the character Oscar Nunez plays on NBC's hit show The Office lives in Scranton, and that real Oscar gets to enjoy the finest culinary treasures that New York has to offer. "There’s a place in the Village called Home, really cozy and romantic. Another place is Quality Meats, around the corner from the Ritz-Carlton.It’s a great steakhouse, beautiful atmosphere, really dark and woody -- modern but eclectic, and the food is amazing. They have wonderful vegetables, but you go there for the steak."

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